On this episode of “The Archive Project,” we feature renowned author, Mary Beard. Probably the most famous classicist in the world, Mary Beard is best known for her international bestsellers “SPQR,” ...

Dame Mary Beard's celebrated status as the font of all knowledge on all things ancient Rome is a long way from her roots in a ...

Adapting a lecture into a book is difficult. A good lecture, even one that lasts an hour, should only cycle through a single full idea. The lecturer should introduce some supporting concepts, and ...

Beard is a classicist and the author, most recently, of Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can ...

In her newest book, “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World,” Mary Beard renders a group portrait of the men who led the ancient empire, from their personal quirks to how they governed. Beard, who ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A manicured lawn, a gently warming sun, undergraduates fizzing and fretting, a picnic with an eminent academic. It ...

I thought that I would celebrate the BBC repeating the old 1970s series of I, Claudius (with Derek Jacobi and Sian Phillips etc) by re-reading Robert Graves’s original novels — I, Claudius and ...

The way women operate today in the public sphere is not too different from how they did in the literature of Homer or the Middle Ages, says Mary Beard, a leading feminist and expert in ancient history ...

In her slim but potent manifesto “Women & Power,” Cambridge classicist Mary Beard asks, “If there is a cultural template, which works to disempower women, what exactly is it and where do we get it ...

Professor Mary Beard, one of the busiest and most recognised historians in the country, leans in and whispers: ‘I am looking forward to having the odd day off.’ While it may sometimes seem that ...

Mary Louise Carrington Beard, 83, died on February 11, 2012 after a seven-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Mary Lou was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 11, 1928 to Kenneth E. and Louise ...